I'm out, I did this for more than one year.
@Dan Lel I did the same procedure that you're mentioning btw. aned yes, it needs to be done that way or else you'll receive subpar results.

@Dan Lel That's what I exactly did with the backgrounds. Otherwise the animations will have different colors and/or artifacts opposed to the background.

The animations are prerendered layers. You're best to rip them using HW like I did.

I tried the none memoria version and it almost worked right out of the box.

One Background contains several Layers Plus animation. You can't just do one layer but instead save the while scene as one image and upscale it and cut it back.

Do this like 10-20 times because some backgrounds have several animations and you're done.

If it batches can't be used, forget about it as you'll end up with like 30.000 images (take or add a few).

So you all know: I'll not work on a compatible version of my background mod.
I've asked Albeoris several time to give me a kind of an early access so I can start working on it, but to this day, nothing happened (and it's now almost 2 years till we first exchanged words about it).

I don't have the time and the will to do this.
If someone is interested in doing it, I guess you can extract the backgrounds from my mod and follow his instructions (if it ever comes to a release that is).

Well First of all: me because I need to no
make the compatible files for it and as far as I know albeoris isn't working alone on some aspects of memoria.

Originally posted by Dan Lel:

It might be worthy to note that they're not really HD backgrounds though, they're low res background with a photoshop filter applied to them. The main reason the backgrounds stand out is because the character is more crisp, easily fixed by lowering the resolution to 800x600. Unless you want to run around in manga cartoon chibi land which is basically what the photoshop filter does to the game.

Orly???
You Really seem to have 0 clue at all all. That's why I call them kind of HD...

This is really shaping up.
When the HD background are compatible and the UI is restored, I'll play it one more time.
Can't wait for it.

It wasn't unplayable till now. I've played through it two times now and everything is good.